WD-40 can be used to clean Plexiglas and remove minor scratches. Well, not so much “remove” scratches, but it will fill and obscure them. I’m not sure how long it lasts, though.
Despite the name, many “pipe cleaners” made today are not meant to be used to clean pipes. As I discoverd the hard way when I wanted some to clean out the tubing on my Camelbak. All I could find were some decorative ones that were quite useless for cleaning pipes, so they were obviously not intended for that use. The name is just a holdover.
I wonder if anyone ever actually makes soup from it.
Who says voice command remotes are a new invention? Not I. 
This may be another example (and the name may be uniquely British). I have owned many water pump pliers -
- and I have never used them on a water pump. Pliers - yes; grips - yes; nut crackers - yes…
I’m assuming from the name that at some point in the past they were intended to be used on water pumps. Though to be fair, they (or similar pliers) also have a host of other names more descriptive of their superb multi-use capability. Tongue-and-groove pliers - Wikipedia
- adjustable pliers,
- Channellocks (i.e. Channellock brand pliers),
- water pump pliers,
- groove-joint pliers,
- arc-joint pliers,
- Multi-Grips,
- tap or pipe spanners,
- swan neck pliers.
- Monkey pliers.
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TIL Channellock is a brand name, not just a descriptor.
Those large plastic bag sealers (the ones that have a click fastener at one end) also make a good teabag squeezer. Not superior to their intended use, but additional to it.
I’m sure they do … once.
VO5 Balsam & Protein Conditioner was excellent as a cream to shave your legs; I got fewer nicks with it than all but one brand of women’s shaving cream. They discontinued it years ago, unfortunately.
Most convincing so far on better than the intended usage.
Just like duck tape is no longer primarily intended for the restraint of recalcitrant ducks. Although in that case, it does still work perfectly well for the original purpose.
I believe the term was “the Cleveland Facelift”.
I removed an extraneous word. Kroger brand works just as well, and the fact that there are store brands of this sort of mix is a clue that it’s really used far more for the variety of other things you might want to put onion flavor and salt in, as I haven’t seen other store brand soup mixes. Well, I guess I might not because I don’t look for them. Anyway, the main use around here is to put them in as seasoning for chuck roasts.
Any trombonists here? Pond’s Cold Cream was far superior to any purpose-mixed slide oil. I don’t think any musicians used it on their face.
This is dated information though, things could be different today.
As well as it ever did anyway.
My wife buys store brand Au Jus which is soup like.
At least when I was in pharmacy school, Preparation H was the most shoplifted drug, not because people were embarrassed about having hemorrhoids, but because cokeheads were using it to soothe their irritated nasal membranes, and were embarrassed about THAT.
My ex-boyfriend had experienced rectal varicose veins, and he told me, “Preparation H doesn’t do shit!” (and no pun intended, either!) He said Anusol was The.Best.Thing.Ever.
Oh, and my old hospital had a generic knockoff called Formulation R.
On a more serious note, there are a number of meds that were marketed for seizures, but are more extensively used for bipolar disorder and various neuropathies. The ones that come to mind first are Depakote, carbamazepine, and gabapentin.
IMHO those Livestrong-type rubber wristbands printed with custom text are far more useful as jar lid grips for opening stubborn jars than for advertising inspirational slogans or whatever on your wrist.
What’s interesting is that although all colors work well as a jar lid grip, only if you use the yellow one is it a definitively better use than its intended function.
I use wooden clothespins to seal snack bags. You can buy 50 or 100 pins cheaply. I don’t use them to hang clothes on a clothesline. I use a dryer to dry clothes, as I suspect most people do these days. Even when I did use a clothesline, I didn’t use clothespins, I just draped the clothes over the line—less time-consuming.